✿ S.W.A.T✿

Genre:  Action
Rating:  PG-13 (for violence, language and sexual references)
Release Date: August 8, 2003
Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez, LL Cool J, Josh Charles, Brian Van Holt, Jeremy Renner, Olivier Martinez.

Synopsis:

Based off of a one time T.V. show, two Los Angeles S.W.A.T. officers Jim Street and Brian Gamble were sent in to foil an extremely violent bank robbery. Although they thwarted the robbery, they shot a hostage in the process. Street was suspended from S.W.A.T. while Gamble was fired altogether. After 6 months, a veteran S.W.A.T. officer, Daniel Harrelson or "Hondo", is told to assemble a S.W.A.T. team for his division. He chooses other S.W.A.T. officers as well as 3 rookies. However, after they pass the S.W.A.T. training, they receive a message that a French crime boss, known as Alex Montell is trying to escape from prison. This will not be easy to prevent, especially after Montell promises $100 Million to his rescuers.

My Opinion:

 
This movie fires enough bullets to ventilate and sink several tugboats and a few landing craft. The film is basiclly a string of bang-bang firefights separated by a chase scene here and a rumble scene there. That's not to disparage it: S.W.A.T. promises high-intensity action and it certainly delivers exactly that. With gusto. And unrelenting, loud noise that sounds more like screeching than explosions.

Colin Farrell is once again darkly handsome as one of the S.W.A.T. officers, and easily gives one of the key performances in the movie. Samuel Jackson is a smiling, coiled piece of menace always threatening to rip the calm into shreds. A host of colorful cops make up the rest of the motley S.W.A.T. team, which looks as though it could take Normandy all over again. They are some tough.




The production team for this movie seems to have done itself proud: the sets in the streets certainly capture the scenes well; the strumming, aching guitar music hits all the right notes. And director Clark Johnson seems to have orchestrated this rat-a-tat, boom-boom just right.



Some audiences will hate all this nervous, unforgiving violence; others will just settle back and enjoy it for popcorn thrills. Don't be surprised if this one suddenly catches on at the box office. It's not great. But it's darned good.



Overall, "S.W.A.T" is a fun summer movie. Mindless entertainment, escapism, or whatever you want to label it - "S.W.A.T." is worthy of a two-hour investment.I watched it for Colin Farrell and  Jeremy Renner for sure. Worth for the action